Category: Politics

In 2018, the state GOP managed to blow the reelection of a state Supreme Court justice, FOUR appellate court races, and two super-majorities in the legislature. The state Republican majority only managed to scrape together $825 for then-Supreme Court justice Barbara Jackson in her losing effort. Yet they managed to find nearly $11,000 for county commissioner candidates in Tim Moore’s neck of the woods. Exhibit A: That’s right. A 10/30/18 check for $7500 to Catawba County commissioner Kitty Barnes (R). Apparently, someone had the good sense to STOP PAYMENT on said check on 11/2. Exhibit B: Here we…

Surprisingly, this one has NOTHING to do with the little cartoon character. What you see below is being pushed out all over social media: This is not news. He already told us in his emailed Christmas card that he was running again. The ad is recycled from his last run for chairman, where he knocked off Jim Womack. The fact that it’s being pushed out now means someone is putting some money behind it. But is he seriously going to run under the slogan “Results, not Rhetoric” this time around? After November???? The 9-11 hijackers got results. Let’s look at…

Tongues were wagging all up and down the Third Congressional District as word spread about congressman Walter Jones being rushed to the hospital the other night. (We’re hearing reports about folks already announcing candidacies and lining up support to replace Jones — who just got reelected in November. ) Well, Tom Lamprecht — a popular radio host over on the coast — has put the kibosh on rumors of Jones’s demise. Lamprecht reported on his show tonight that Jones fell in his home and broke his hip. He was rushed to the hospital via ambulance, and went through surgery to repair…

Walter Jones is just a few month into his final term in office. A lot of names are being bandied about as candidates to replace him in 2020 — 2018 opponent Scott Dacey. NCGOP vice-chairman Michele Nix, NC Rep. Phil Shepard, NC Rep. Mike Speciale, NC Rep. Greg Murphy and perennial candidate Phil Law. Law, who finished second in the 2018 primary for the GOP nod in the Third, sent out a release today indicating he’s getting a jump on that whole crowd. He plans to announce his 2020 candidacy tonight at the Onslow County GOP meeting in Jacksonville. Law,…

We told you earlier about Speaker Tim Moore conveniently getting an ethics complaint about a private business deal dismissed on the very last day of existence for the state board of elections and ethics enforcement. Well, the liberal group that filed that one is back with a NEW complaint about the same deal: A Washington, D.C.,-based government watchdog group asked the state ethics board Monday to look into the role a senior aide to House Speaker Tim Moore played in state environmental approvals for a closed chicken plant Moore co-owned. The Campaign for Accountability obtained emails in late November…

If you pay close enough attention to liberals, they will actually give you clues as to what they’re really up to. Take this recent poll from that leftist clown car known as Public Policy Polling. They’re showing Pat McCrory (41% to 45% for Cooper) and Thom Tillis (37% to Cooper’s 46%) as the two strongest Republican challengers to Roy Cooper. Dan Forest comes in third, trailing Cooper 47%-35%. Public Policy Polling IS a Democrat campaign consulting group. Its founder and owner funded the faux Republican who ran against Barbara Jackson to split the vote and help Anita Earls get on…

Apparently, the small band of driveby media types that loiters in the legislative building is having to move to new office space. And THAT has them upset. Never mind all the corruption and malfeasance infesting our legislative branch. Office space is WHAT is important. Take it from WRAL’s Laura Leslie, who amazingly still has a job covering politics after her social media malfeasance went viral. Her hairy gorilla butt must REALLY be hurting: For 56 years, ever since the Legislative Building opened, media organizations have had workspace across the hall from where news conferences are held and downstairs from the…

Sun Energy1 is arguably one of the world’s biggest players in the renewable energy field. THAT is why it was surprising to see this: Charlotte area-based Sun Energy1 is arguably one of the world’s biggest players in the renewable energy field. (They sponsor NASCAR.) In North Carolina, most of their projects are clustered in the northeastern corner of the state. Some are in the western mountain counties. D&B Hoovers estimates the company’s revenue to be in the ballpark of $350 million. In 2017, North Carolina ranked second nationally to California in adding new solar power capability. North Carolina has about…

Remember back in 2014 when Thom Tilli$$$ ran for US Senate pledging to collaborate with liberal Democrats and stab the next Republican president in the back every chance he got? (Yeah, us neither.) I’m curious. Can Robert Mueller expand his collusion investigation to include Thom Tilli$$$ and his relationship with Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren (D-MA)? At the year’s end, Tilli$$$’s office released their boss’s “Top 20” examples of working “across the aisle” to, um, “get things done.” (Make sure you read the linked document on an empty stomach.) The “Top 20” includes a whole lot of working with Elizabeth Warren —…

We’ve reported earlier on how the little guy from Cleveland County is making out like a Rockefeller thanks to his political connections. Now, it appears he’s spreading the love — with other people’s money — to his staff on Jones Street: A day after his reelection as Speaker of the House, the office of Rep. Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) released details of his full staff and their salaries to ABC11. Moore, himself, will make $38,151 in a part-time role. Most of his 15-member staff, with the exception of two interns, are full-time positions. The Speaker’s Chief of Staff, Scott “Bart” Goodson,…